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ONE PHOTO EVERY WEEK 4/52/2025-WEEKEND BAZAAR


 Weekend Bazaars are all over the cities and towns in Malaysia. They are great locations to provide opportunities for entrepreneurs and small business owners to promote, market and sell their products. However ,these places are not permanent shops for product vendors.

For this discussion, I am excluding Pasar Tani. These local market areas(Pasar Tani,operated by FAMA)  are for permananent vendors but operate only on weekend. To illustrate my topic on weekend bazaar, I am using Pasar Benteng,managed by Pasar Seni, KL. Every weekend it changes its name and this photo showed it is themed as Pasar Warna Warni.

In any localised business, location is very,very important. It is located by the Klang River and next to Pasar Seni. It sits on heavy tourist pedestrian traffic and benefits from spill over crowd frrom River of Life Project,the Merdeka Padang and Pasar Seni. Petaling Street and MRT Station are just a few  minutes walk.

Pasar Benteng has  about two dozen kiosks on rental. Vendors of all types of products pay rental for three days -Friday,Saturday and Sunday.For my obervations in the last six months, the bazaars are fully taken up. I noticed different vendors keep changing but a few look familiar every weekend. Pasar Seni spaces are fully taken up and full of tourists. With Visit Malaysia Year 2026, I hope our local vendors will be doing roaring business and smile all the way to banks.

A few of my Artist-Entrepreneur students ganged up and rented a stall here for a weekend last year. They paid RM500 and promote their artistic products.  The result was very encouraging. New business owners should use this type of bazaar to test their products and learn how to market and sell their products. Once they gain confidence, they can start to open their own shops. However, for new entrepreneurs, I suggest they should start business by selling on line.


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